once, again

Once, again
2008-09
3.3 x 13.7 meters
Powder coated Aluminium, stainless steel

The course is common,
experience parallel,
unaccompanied
mutually.
Incidents are recurrent,
formerly known,
remembered
new.
Realisation is experience,
found
Once, again.


“On those stepping into rivers the same,
other and other waters flow.”
Herakleitos (c.535BC – 475BC)

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Secreted away, within the cavernous entrance of the Northbridge Building a new work has been slowly growing out of the wall.

Once, Again is a culmination of the hard work of many people.

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I would like to express my thanks to:

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Rockpress (Rocklea Pressed metal)

Peerless Powdercoat

Positive Solutions (Mr Benjiman Hampe)

Neilson Properties

Andrew Baker Art Dealer

Donovan Hill Architects

Ian Barnes and Associates Engineering

Brisbane City Council

Hutchinson Builders

Mr Leonard Brown

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The building is still in the final stages of completion but the lane way in which the work is situated (between Tank and Tubot Streets Brisbane) is now open to pedestrian traffic.

Field of Vision pt2

Alongside the large relief in gallery 2 the exhibition continues in gallery 1 with 5 stainless steel mesh sculptures. The notion of field can be interpreted as literally a vast plain, as a subject of enquiry or occupation, a theory of bodies in space, or a mathematical equation. Visual and physical phenomenon are my primary fields of occupation. These new wire works are the evidence of my experience and experimentation within that field. Experience influences structure, structure influences form, material influences structure, the environment influences appearance...etc. Continuing with the notion of architectural scale, these works relate to the human body (a dimension of architecture), the scale of the works and space they occupy heightening awareness of the viewers scale in relation to the work and that of the architecture in which they are housed. They are almost inhabitable but inaccessible due to their closed structure. all works are 2009



'Interloper' and 'Array'







'Array' and 'atmospheric perspective'



'knot withstanding'



'Interloper'



'which the I saw'







'atmospheric perspective'

field of vision continues until the 27th of June 2007
Institute of Modern Art
Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley
Queensland
10:00am - 5:00pm Tuesday - Sunday
open until 8:00pm Thursday

the making of

Imperfect Pattern L (Field of vision)
2009
2.2m X 4.4m X 8.8m
Hand-cut coreflute.

Late 2008 I was invited to produce work for a show at the Institute of Modern Art, Fortitude Valley QLD. The Imperfect pattern series that I have been working on since 2002 had reached
number 49, it seemed appropriated to expand number 50 into a scale worthy of this milestone. An alternative material was needed to achieve this scale, I had been thinking about a way to use coreflute plastic for some time. With the assistance of Akiko Yamasaki and the financial assistance of the IMA a monumental jigsaw of 5880 pieces, covering an area of 68m2 has been realised. The work is able to be assembled and disassembled again and again allowing for it to be relocated at a later date, its modular structure allows for the work to be reoriented to suit different architectural spaces. I hope that the work will travel to other public galleries over the coming years.




The coloured pieces were cut roughly to size using a guillotine. Later the angles were cut by hand, each piece scored, folded and sorted. there are 54 various pieces in four colours + 10 various large white pieces.



A regional residency at the IMA was available concurrent with the preparations for the exhibition, I was lucky enough to be successful with my application. The installation of the work took 6 days (I thought it might take 3), the residency made this protracted and exhausting event a little less problematic.



There is method in the madness.















Every different view of the work creates a new dynamic, new planes are revealed others are hidden. The transparency of the material mixes the colours creating new tones, the coloured planes reflect onto the white creating half tones, shadows complicate the pattern and confuse the eye.